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Target to Remove GMOs from Major Food Brand
from NaturalSociety.com: Super store giant, Target, has announced they will be adding a new brand to their shelves—one that is made with natural health in mind. Called Simply Balanced, the brand will be on shelves soon and will phase out genetically modified ingredients by the end of 2014. According to a press release on the…
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#PRISM barely scratches the surface… 50 years of global surveillance
RINF Alternative News looks at the reality of the global surveillance network and explains how PRISM is just a small part in a decades-long agenda to monitor citizens. Sources: http://www.duncancampbell.org/content…http://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/jo…http://www.nickyhager.info/ebook-of-s…http://www.nickyhager.info/exposing-t…http://www.cyber-rights.org/intercept…http://retro.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Echelon/st…http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_suyRP…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF5mrw…http://www.fas.org/irp/program/proces…http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2889…http://www.zdnet.com/dutch-government…
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Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear
from The Corbett Report: “If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear.” We’ve all heard this argument a million times when talking to people about the latest revelations of government snooping or the latest roll-out of creepy Orwellian technology. The implication is that the only people who complain about having their…
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FBI director admits domestic use of #drones for surveillance
from RT.com: The FBI uses drones for domestic surveillance purposes, the head of the agency told Congress early Wednesday. Robert Mueller (pictured), the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, confirmed to lawmakers that the FBI owns several unmanned aerial vehicles, but has not adopted any strict policies or guidelines yet to govern the use…
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The alarming truth about genetically modified foods
from undergroundhealth.com: The more we learn about genetically engineered (GE) foods, the clearer the dangers become. The artificial combining of plants with genes from wildly different kingdoms is bound to cause problems. As the years roll on, such suspicions are becoming increasingly validated. In recent weeks, we’ve not only learned that GE corn is in…
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‘Eat and Support’ #Fukushima Rice, Without Knowing and Without Choice
from FukushimaUpdate.com: From rice to be grown and harvested in 2013, the national government is buying up 250,000 tonnes for the government’s rice reserve; of that, 40,000 tonnes, or 16%, may come from Fukushima Prefecture. The Fukushima prefectural government is encouraging farmers to participate in the government bidding if they fear “baseless rumors” driving down…
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Air pollution exposure while pregnant linked to autism risk
from cbsnews.com: Exposure to aiir pollution while pregnant may increase a woman’s risk that her unborn child eventually develops autism. Researchers looked at more than 116,000 women to determine whether they were exposed to pollution during pregnancy. They found certain chemicals and pollutants were linked to heightened risk for the neurodevelopmental disease that affects one…
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The Great American Dragnet: Over 200 Million People Are in the Facial Recognition Database
from BlacklistedNews.com: You are probably participating in the facial recognition database whether you want to or not. Most likely, your visage is there to be easily identified, without your consent, even if you’ve never committed a crime. Using the vague criteria of “law enforcement purposes”, the United States has more than 200 million Americans filed…
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Janet Napolitano Denies Existence of ‘Orwellian State’
from Politicker.com: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano weighed in on the NSA intelligence leaks on Friday, telling NY1 that fears over government surveillance were overblown. “I think people have gotten the idea that there’s an Orwellian state out there that somehow we’re operating in. That’s far from the case,” she told Errol Louis during an…
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NSA admits they listen to U.S. phone calls without a warrant, more than half the Senate skips briefing
from EndTheLie.com: In a secret briefing, the National Security Agency (NSA) admitted they can listen to U.S. phone calls and other communications without a warrant but over half of the Senate decided to fly out of Washington D.C. early and skip the briefing on the NSA’s surveillance programs. According to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), in…
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Retro Sci-Fi Weekend: ‘Journey to the Seventh Planet’
A 1962 sci-fi B-movie, “Journey to the Seventh Planet,” filmed in Denmark for $75,000 USD and co-written and directed by Sidney W. Pink. Pink credited as father of color 3-D movies, and also, for discovering actor Dustin Hoffman. A reader wonders whether beyond a strong exchange rate in early sixties, filmmakers also put casting couch…
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Spy Drone Can See What You Are Wearing From 17,500 Feet
A new camera developed by the Pentagon’s research arm was highlighted in a recent special on PBS’ “Nova” in an episode called “Rise of the Drones.” It’s a camera system so detailed it can discern specific movements and even what a subject is wearing. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous…
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Sanity prevails: US Supreme Court rules that human genes are not eligible for patent protection
from Natural News: In a unanimous ruling, the United States Supreme Court ruled today that human genes cannot be patented. The ruling invalidates the thousands of patents that have already been granted on human genes, including the patent by Myriad Genetics on the BRCA breast cancer genes which the company says no one else can…
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7 Powerful Ways to Maintain Your Privacy and Integrity Online
from Activist Post.com: The recent NSA leaks from whistleblower Ed Snowden have publicly confirmed that digital privacy does not exist. The federal government and intelligence agencies have direct server access to the world’s most popular sites and services including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and more. This means that all of your data when using these…